1) Once you have posted the link DON'T CUT AND PASTE THE CONTENTS OF THE PAGE.
You apparently were so blissfully unaware of the global reach of our enemy, I thought I should put it right where you can see it. Did I waste some of your electrons or was it a yawn to read about all the carnage?
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2) Your point that terrorism has not been a scourge to the U.S. alone is true but not very relevant—- see the title of this thread, and reread 24.
It was YOUR point that there had been "only one attack". This was a falsehood in your argument with the title. YOU said that their goal was harming the "West or something". You refute the title, I refute you. Relevance isn't the issue, your microscopic world view is.
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3) By expanding the list to include attacks “associated with Al Qaida” (which apparently can mean "conducted by terrorists inspired by Al Qaida", and maybe even less) you seem to have pretty well abandoned any claim to an organized, cohesive enemy, which is usually required for something to be called an actual war.
Yes, their diffuseness makes this a different kind of war. Perhaps though we should have paid attention when Osama Bin Laden DECLARED WAR on us in 1996. www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
(I didn't include the whole page, I know how you hate that) Having a professional military education however, I would look back in history at other insurgencies (small wars) that the US has fought against irregular, incohesive enemies.
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/jmo/nopc/Book%20Reviews/Small%20Wars%20Manual%20-%20Parker.htm
Wars, none the less.
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4) If you post page after page of supporting data, make very sure that you have a clear point to support. Your data indicate an addition thousand deaths worldwide over the past 13 years. Is that your point? (And see 2, above.)
I was replying to someone who evinced total ignorance about the recent history of Al Queda terrorist attacks worldwide and preceding attacks against his or her fellow citizens (USS Cole, Khobar Tower, etc). Hope they got my point.
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4) You misused the word “xenophobic”. It implies fearful or contemptuous, when what you seemed to mean was indifferent or oblivious.
In view of all that human suffering, how could anyone who doesn't take terrorism seriously be anything but contemptuous of his or her fellow man?